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November 01, 2023

November, the last month of the Church’s year, is when we pray for the dead. This baffles the secular minded and scandalises even other Christians – it was one of the great divid- ing lines between Catholics and Protestants at the Reformation. Yet the practice is fundamental to Catholic belief, for it is an axiom of faith

When patients do know best

November 01, 2023

The Catholic Herald reported in last month’s issue on the case of a young woman, Sudiksha Thirumalesh, 19, who died from a degenerative disease, mitochondrial depletion syndrome, aggravated by Covid, after a long dispute with the NHS Trust in charge of her care. Her condition meant that she needed dialysis and ventilation. She declared that

Interrogating Tim Collins, President of Walsh University

November 01, 2023

The Catholic Herald puts Tim Collins, President of Walsh University in Ohio, under interrogation. What was your career break? Serving as the seventh president of Walsh University is my third career. Opportunities disguised as challenges became “breaks” when I chose to try to overcome rather than retreat. I am also a retired US Air Force

Pray for the Holy Land

November 01, 2023

The psalmist tells us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. After the terrible escalation of violence since 7 October, Christians will have been extending their prayers to all of what we still call the Holy Land. On that day, Hamas terrorists murdered some 1,400 Jews, including the very young and very old, and took

Interrogating Thayne McCulloch, President of Gonzaga University

November 01, 2023

The Catholic Herald puts Thayne McCulloch, President of Gonzaga University in Washington, under interrogation. What’s your favourite Bible verse? Matthew 28:19-20. “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded

Thomas More College of Liberal Arts: ‘It’s a very vibrant liturgical life here’

November 01, 2023

William Fahey, President of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, explains what sets his college apart. Catholic Herald: Could you give us a sketch of the school and its history, where it is now, and how you came to be involved? William Fahey: So, Thomas More College was founded after the disintegration of Catholic higher

Walsh University: Preparing students for their whole lives

November 01, 2023

Tim Collins, President of Walsh University, on the institution’s Faith-driven values. Catholic Herald: Please give us a thumbnail sketch of the university. Tim Collins: Sure. The university is going into its 63rd year. We were formed by a congregation of men, the Brothers of Christian Instruction, and they came about after the French Revolution, and

Slovenian bishops distance themselves from incardination of Rupnik

October 31, 2023

ROME – Both the alleged victims of Slovene Fr Marko Ivan Rupnik and the bishops of his native Slovenia have spoken out about the disgraced artist’s welcome into a new diocese. In the wake of Pope Francis’s decision on Friday to waive the statute of limitations in canon law, five of Fr Rupnik’s presumed victims

Force is sometimes needed to crush evil, says Rome’s chief rabbi as Pope pleads for peace

October 31, 2023

ROME – Rome’s chief rabbi has said that while armed conflict is always “an offence against human dignity” at times it is necessary to defeat evil with force. Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni (pictured) made his comments in response to Pope Francis’s repeated pleas for an end to the war in Gaza and his recent day

The scary thing about Hallowe’en

October 30, 2023

The remarkable feature of an increasingly secular culture is that it tries to replace the cycle of the Church’s year with feasts and fasts of its own. In the case of Hallowe’en it has done so by simply appropriating an element of the Church’s year and making it near-unrecognisable. Hallowe’en is, as the name tells

Bishop urges Catholics to stick to church funerals amid rise of ‘direct cremations’

October 30, 2023

An English bishop has encouraged Catholics to hold fast to Christian faith and practice at funerals in the wake of rising numbers of “no frills” and “direct cremations”. In a pastoral letter to the faithful of the Diocese of Shrewsbury, called “At the Hour of Our Death”, Bishop Mark Davies expressed concern about the rising

Sexual abuse survivors question why Pope took so long to stop protecting Rupnik

October 30, 2023

Sex abuse survivors groups are asking why Pope Francis took so long to waive a statute of limitations to permit the possible prosecution of Slovenian priest-artist Father Marko Rupnik. Victims “need justice, not talk,” said Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins (pictured), a former member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCPM) who

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